Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...

Researchers uncover a 320-million-year-old fossil site in Massachusetts, revealing over 130 species of reptiles, amphibians, ...

Researchers have discovered an exceptionally preserved fossil site in Massachusetts that provides a rare glimpse into ...

BURIED beneath the oldest known tombstone in the US is an English knight ... Immediately after death, all of the muscles in ...

Scientists have estimated the size of an extinct flying reptile called a pterosaur, based on fragments of a fossil finger ...

The Green Arabian Peninsula Project, which was launched in 2010, continues its efforts to study the impact of successive ...

The discoveries include sharks, shorebirds, mammals and saber-toothed salmon, with the oldest remains dating to almost nine ...

In the Karoo Basin of South Africa, an unusual tusked beast is painted on a rock wall. Archaeologists have previously ...

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

Researchers have discovered a well-preserved Devonian coelacanth fish in Western Australia, shedding light on the connection ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...